• News and Culture

    Civil Rights

    Martin Luther King Jr.’s Powerful 1960 Letter From
    Big Rock Jail

    By Stephen and Paul Kendrick  January 15, 2021
    Climate Change

    Writing the Human Element Into Climate Change Via Those Most At Risk

    By Claire Holroyde  January 15, 2021
    American History

    Horace Julian Bond Recounts Witnessing the Little Rock Nine from Afar

    By Horace Julian Bond  January 15, 2021
    Keen On

    What We Can Learn from Animals About the Value of Productivity

    By Keen On  January 15, 2021
    New Books Network

    Writing and Activism: Farzana Doctor’s Seven Joins the Movement to Ban Female Genital Mutilation

    By New Books Network  January 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Watch the first trailer for the adaptation of Nico Walker’s Cherry.

    By Dan Sheehan  January 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Could Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of White Noise actually be good?

    By Emily Temple  January 14, 2021
    End Times

    The Long Goodbye: Reconciling with the End of Nature

    By Madeleine Watts  January 14, 2021
    2021

    Here’s Your 2021 Literary Film and TV Preview

    By Emily Temple  January 14, 2021
    Insurrection

    What Will We Teach Future Students About the Capitol Insurrection of 2021?

    By Samantha Tucker  January 14, 2021
    Writing Advice

    In Favor of Speed:
    Write Fast, Fix Later

    By Mateo Askaripour  January 14, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Our Lies: Jenny Offill and James Plath on Conspiracy Theories in History and Literature

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 14, 2021
    The Writer's Life

    Caitlin Horrocks on Life in Michigan, the Love of Sleep, and Novels vs. Short Stories

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 14, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Danielle Evans on How to Play With Time and Chronology in a Short Story

    By Danielle Evans  January 14, 2021
    Family History

    The Importance of Getting Food Right in Fiction

    By Jamie Harrison  January 14, 2021
    Keen On

    How Will America Address the Post-COVID Wave of Homelessness?

    By Keen On  January 14, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Question for American Fascists: What on Earth Do You Lack?

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   January 14, 2021
    On Memoir

    On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

    By Justine Cowan  January 14, 2021
    Creativity

    Looking to Nurture Your Artistic Self? Go On an Artist Date

    By Julia Cameron  January 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Hannibal Lecter is back…or is he?

    By Dan Sheehan  January 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Today, Tsitsi Dangarembga was awarded the 2021 PEN Award for Freedom of Expression.

    By Rasheeda Saka  January 13, 2021
    The Hub

    One of the New Yorker’s National Magazine Awards could be rescinded this month.

    By Walker Caplan  January 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Scotland, which is better than England, deems books an essential good.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Yusuf/Cat Stevens is turning his song “Peace Train” into a children’s book.

    By Walker Caplan  January 13, 2021
    The Hub

    The Jane Austen multiplayer role-playing game Ever, Jane has shut down.

    By Walker Caplan  January 13, 2021
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